Default Start Date for New Tasks appears in the future

[Margaret]

I am using Project Server 2007 SP1 and Dec CU. When I create a new task in a
schedule the default Start date is appearing 1/15/10 even thought the Project
information is indicating a start date of November 24, 2008. Is there a
particular setting or a relationship in tasks that I should be looking at to
resolve this issue?

 

[Mark Everett | PMP]

I am using Project Server 2007 SP1 and Dec CU. When I create a new task in a
schedule the default Start date is appearing 1/15/10 even thought the Project
information is indicating a start date of November 24, 2008. Is there a
particular setting or a relationship in tasks that I should be looking atto
resolve this issue?

This seems to be connected to the "Week starts on" setting in Server
Settings > Time and Task Management > Task Settings and Display -
Reporting Display section.

If your is set to Saturday (I would make a small wager it is) then set
it to Sunday or Monday. I typically like to set it for Monday anyway,
to avoid task updates being made on a Sunday or Saturday as people
tend to want to enter data in the first box they can.

Hope this helps,

Mark Everett PMP MCITP
www.catapultsystems.com

 

[Marc Soester [MVP]]

Margaret, that can have many reasons. Do you have a constraint set on the
task? is there a dependency set on the task? if so that may be the reason why
the new tasks starts in the future.
Hope this helps

 

[Margaret]

Actually figured out the issue:

The PM had inadvertently indented summary Tasks and it caused the dates to
change for the Start date, ONce they were changed back to the original
indentation level the new tasks had the correct start date based on the
Project Start date as a default.

 

[Sue]

Thank you so much for this solution. I am working on a project that is
enormous and spent a long time trying to find the problem and you provided
the solution...

 

[AmWall]

It has been discovered that we have 2 projects that have had this occur, and
in both cases we discovered that the projects had Circular References and
have since been corrected.